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Can the Centre hold? Is EU tough enough?

by Otmar Lahodynsky, Hon. AEJ President Vienna, September 14, 2023 And what happens in Polish elections in a month's time? The Vienna Burgtheater (Court Theare) season of...

Getting the timing right

by Edward Steen, Vienna, September 8, 2023 The sneakier side of the Internet became clear long ago, when Polish priests began suing each other for...

CoE media alerts July 17 – 14, 2023

Safety of Journalists Weekly 17 - 24 July, 2023 Member States Poland: Attempts to pressure Wirtualna Polska and Onet. On 23 June 2023, Paweł Kapusta, the...

Press freedom: its enemies and who is for us

from William Horsley, UK chairman, London, with Kyriakos Pierides, Media Freedom spokesman, Nicosia. July 24, 2023 The AEJ's Belgian Section published an interview with WH,...

Kara-Mursa faces Stalinist 25 years sentence

by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 18, 2023 Putin's latest unendurably cynical blow to the human spirit was delivered yesterday by sentencing to 25 years the...

WSJ reporter feted and free press defended

by Edward Steen, Secretary-General, Vienna, April 18, 2023 The Wall Street Journal reports that  Lynne Tracy, the newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia, visited the WSJ's...

Can Ukraine destroy Putin? The case for optimism.

When the US government offered to help Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky evacuate as Russia was attacking Kyiv, Zelensky responded: "The fight is here. I...

UK govt planned to allow Wagner SLAPP against BBC

by Edward Steen, Vienna March 21, 2023 Putin’s private, sanctioned warlord, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, ex-jailbird, hot-dog salesman,  now billionaire founder of the murderous Wagner Group, ...

UN testimony on Russia playing the victim in Ukraine

Testimony to UN Security Council on Russian hate speech By Timothy Snyder Evidence to UN Security Council session on 14/03/23 called by Russian Federation to discuss...

Orbán’s latest assault on Hungarian journalists

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not through outright repression,...

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